Monday 5 May 2014

Another Fishing Line + Poly in the Black Ace 98

Since there was a "sponsor" (link) for me to hunt for a local equivalent of the premium Japanese fishing line, I would be accelerating the search and test for fishing lines. 

Many combinations would fail right off the stringing machine. Some may not even survive the stringing process. Neither would there be enough time for me to write and post every single attempt, so only selected ones may be posted.

This would be yet another brand of fishing line with poly in the Black Ace 98. (link1)(link2)(link3)








Playtest:

- Huge vibrations were sensed during ball contacts. Even just from bouncing a ball on the ground.
- The stringbed felt very comfortable and soft, but it was too powerful. Strangely, not in the trampoline sense as control was still very much intact. Just too much power for us to take full unhindered swings at the ball.
- Spin was very good. Much better than any full poly I have tried in any racket.
- M, who was testing this with me, enjoyed the spin, power and comfort. If the power could be tamed slightly, he thought this carried great potential in his preferred Yonex RD-7. The vibrations did not bother him at all, probably since he never liked strings with dampeners in the first place. (link)
- To speed up the string search, three ProKennex Black Ace 98s were used together with one strung very traditionally using syn gut as a reference racket for comparision.
- So far, the bottom racket (link) is leading the race in all aspects.







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